Difference between elastic and coherent scattering

[Gennaro]

Hi everyone! What is the difference between coherent and elastic scattering. Maybe the elastic scattering implies that there is not loss of energy, whereas the coherent scattering implies that the wavelength of a ray (or rays) is the same before and after the scattering?

Thank you in advance.

 

[berkeman]

Hi everyone! What is the difference between coherent and elastic scattering. Maybe the elastic scattering implies that there is not loss of energy, whereas the coherent scattering implies that the wavelength of a ray (or rays) is the same before and after the scattering?

Thank you in advance.

Welcome to the PF.

What have you found so far by using Google or perhaps Wikipedia?

 

[Gennaro]

Welcome to the PF.

What have you found so far by using Google or perhaps Wikipedia?

Hi Berkemar, I found only confuse or difficult explanations.

 

[berkeman]

Hi Berkemar, I found only confuse or difficult explanations.

Can you post a link or two to what you have found, and let us know what is confusing about it? Thanks.

 

[Gennaro]

Can you post a link or two to what you have found, and let us know what is confusing about it? Thanks.

I think that my reseaches are not useful because are in italian.

http://personalpages.to.infn.it/~gamba/corsi/ApplFisNucl/ATFN078_3.pdf
http://unica2.unica.it/~corrias/ANNA/Didattica/strutt-3.pdf

 

[berkeman]

Does this article help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering

 

[Gennaro]

Does this article help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering

I had seen this page. If possible, I'd like to ask you to suggest to me books on which I can study these definitions.
Thank you for your help.